From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/63114 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Stop with an error signal Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 01:19:36 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <20101031050410.GA3136@khaled-laptop> <20101031051203.GA3428@khaled-laptop> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1288502371 26316 80.91.229.12 (31 Oct 2010 05:19:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 05:19:31 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Oct 31 06:19:27 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PCQKE-00067O-ET for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 06:19:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15010CA7F7; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 06:19:25 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id pxX1QG3GYih6; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 06:19:22 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 578EECA7F4; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 06:19:22 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50A4FCA7F4 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 06:19:21 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id Clgl5WAPd8BS for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 06:19:09 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter5-ams.mf.surf.net (filter5-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.73]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C73FACA7F2 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 06:19:09 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from hackers.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.14.81]) by filter5-ams.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id o9V5J7oo003368 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 06:19:08 +0100 Original-Received: FROM adi-laptop (bas3-montreal02-1096680238.dsl.bell.ca [65.94.3.46]) By hackers.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 4CCCFC49.B5912.6541 ; Authuser adityam; 31 Oct 2010 01:19:05 EDT In-Reply-To: <20101031051203.GA3428@khaled-laptop> User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (LNX 1266 2009-07-14) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=141.211.14.81; country=US; region=MI; city=Ann Arbor; postalcode=48109; latitude=42.2923; longitude=-83.7145; metrocode=505; areacode=734; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.2923,-83.7145&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0BDphj7AM - 44be32cc799f - 20101031 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.73 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:63114 Archived-At: On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, Khaled Hosny wrote: > On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 01:08:40AM -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote: >> On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, Khaled Hosny wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 07:27:02PM -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I want to write a macro that checks for some settings and if the >>>> settings are wrong stop the current compilation and terminate with >>>> an error message. Right now I have >>>> >>>> \def\ERROR >>>> {\writeline >>>> \showmessage\??externalfilter??{forbidden}\getexternalfilterdirectory >>>> \batchmode >>>> \normalend} >>> >>> Well, the first thought that came in my mind is using os.exit(1): >>> >>> \def\ERROR{\directlua{os.exit(1)}} >>> >>> But since this is pretty obvious, I'm sure I'm missing something. >> >> I want the code to also work with MkII, so I did not even think of a >> lua solution :) > > For some reason I was assuming the external filter module is MkIV only > thing, now I wounder from where I got that impression. I had some functionality (running content through webservers) that was MkIV only, but I decided to remove that. Maybe that is what give you the MkIV only imression. 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